Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate
Streams draining upland catchments carry large quantities of carbon from terrestrial stocks to downstream freshwater and marine ecosystems. Here it either enters long-term storage in sediments or enters the atmosphere as gaseous carbon through a combination of biotic and abiotic processes. There are...
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ftunivcollcork:oai:cora.ucc.ie:10468/9052 2023-08-27T04:11:03+02:00 Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate Doyle, Brian C. de Eyto, Elvira Dillane, Mary Poole, Russell McCarthy, Valerie Ryder, Elizabeth Jennings, Eleanor 2019-03-15 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10468/9052 https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1053-2019 en eng Copernicus GmbH https://www.biogeosciences.net/16/1053/2019/ Doyle, B.C., Eyto, E.D., Dillane, M., Poole, R., McCarthy, V., Ryder, E. and Jennings, E., 2019. Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate. Biogeosciences, 16(5), (18pp). DOI:10.5194/bg-16-1053-2019 doi:10.5194/bg-16-1053-2019 1726-4189 1071 1726-4170 5 Biogeosciences 1053 http://hdl.handle.net/10468/9052 16 © Author(s) 2019 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Marine ecosystems River water colour Climate change Anthropogenic disturbance Catchment stream Article (peer-reviewed) 2019 ftunivcollcork https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1053-2019 2023-08-06T14:30:59Z Streams draining upland catchments carry large quantities of carbon from terrestrial stocks to downstream freshwater and marine ecosystems. Here it either enters long-term storage in sediments or enters the atmosphere as gaseous carbon through a combination of biotic and abiotic processes. There are, however, increasing concerns over the long-term stability of terrestrial carbon stores in blanket peatland catchments as a result of anthropogenic pressures and climate change. We analysed sub-annual and inter-annual changes in river water colour (a reliable proxy measurement of dissolved organic carbon; DOC) using 6 years of weekly data, from 2011 to 2016. This time-series dataset was gathered from three contiguous river sub-catchments, the Black, the Glenamong and the Srahrevagh, in a blanket peatland catchment system in western Ireland, and it was used to identify the drivers that best explained observed temporal change in river colour. The data were also used to estimate annual DOC loads from each catchment. General additive mixed modelling was used to identify the principle environmental drivers of water colour in the rivers, while wavelet cross-correlation analysis was used to identify common frequencies in correlations. At 130 mg Pt Co L−1, the mean colour levels in the Srahrevagh (the sub-catchment with lowest rainfall and higher forest cover) were almost 50 % higher than those from the Black and Glenamong, at 95 and 84 mg Pt Co L−1 respectively. The decomposition of the colour datasets revealed similar multi-annual, annual and event-based (random component) trends, illustrating that environmental drivers operated synchronously at each of these temporal scales. For both the Black and its nested Srahrevagh catchment, three variables (soil temperature, soil moisture deficit, SMD, and the weekly North Atlantic Oscillation, NAO) combined to explain 54 % and 58 % of the deviance in colour respectively. In the Glenamong, which had steeper topography and a higher percentage of peat intersected by streams, soil ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation University College Cork, Ireland: Cork Open Research Archive (CORA) Biogeosciences 16 5 1053 1071 |
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Streams draining upland catchments carry large quantities of carbon from terrestrial stocks to downstream freshwater and marine ecosystems. Here it either enters long-term storage in sediments or enters the atmosphere as gaseous carbon through a combination of biotic and abiotic processes. There are, however, increasing concerns over the long-term stability of terrestrial carbon stores in blanket peatland catchments as a result of anthropogenic pressures and climate change. We analysed sub-annual and inter-annual changes in river water colour (a reliable proxy measurement of dissolved organic carbon; DOC) using 6 years of weekly data, from 2011 to 2016. This time-series dataset was gathered from three contiguous river sub-catchments, the Black, the Glenamong and the Srahrevagh, in a blanket peatland catchment system in western Ireland, and it was used to identify the drivers that best explained observed temporal change in river colour. The data were also used to estimate annual DOC loads from each catchment. General additive mixed modelling was used to identify the principle environmental drivers of water colour in the rivers, while wavelet cross-correlation analysis was used to identify common frequencies in correlations. At 130 mg Pt Co L−1, the mean colour levels in the Srahrevagh (the sub-catchment with lowest rainfall and higher forest cover) were almost 50 % higher than those from the Black and Glenamong, at 95 and 84 mg Pt Co L−1 respectively. The decomposition of the colour datasets revealed similar multi-annual, annual and event-based (random component) trends, illustrating that environmental drivers operated synchronously at each of these temporal scales. For both the Black and its nested Srahrevagh catchment, three variables (soil temperature, soil moisture deficit, SMD, and the weekly North Atlantic Oscillation, NAO) combined to explain 54 % and 58 % of the deviance in colour respectively. In the Glenamong, which had steeper topography and a higher percentage of peat intersected by streams, soil ... |
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Doyle, Brian C. de Eyto, Elvira Dillane, Mary Poole, Russell McCarthy, Valerie Ryder, Elizabeth Jennings, Eleanor |
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Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate |
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Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate |
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Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate |
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Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate |
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Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate |
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synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate |
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https://www.biogeosciences.net/16/1053/2019/ Doyle, B.C., Eyto, E.D., Dillane, M., Poole, R., McCarthy, V., Ryder, E. and Jennings, E., 2019. Synchrony in catchment stream colour levels is driven by both local and regional climate. Biogeosciences, 16(5), (18pp). DOI:10.5194/bg-16-1053-2019 doi:10.5194/bg-16-1053-2019 1726-4189 1071 1726-4170 5 Biogeosciences 1053 http://hdl.handle.net/10468/9052 16 |
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